Tokyo based architecture studio Nendo of Japanese architect Oki Sato have created the new concept for 24 Issey Miyake Store. Based on the concept of the Japanese convenience store, 24 Issey Miyake shops combine inexpensive prices, a large variety of colors and frequent changes in the product lineup. The latest shop, located in Shibuya’s Parco shopping complex also includes a store that specially features Miyake’s Bilbao bag.

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Australian architect Matt Gibson has designed a shop interior for the fashion retailer Fame Agenda, located in the Docklands of Melbourne, Australia.

Involving concepts of ‘transparency and illusion’ and bringing customers minds in-between interior and exterior this store plays on the perspective of the ‘arcade’. A random and organic set of arches inspired by Thomas Heatherwick’s sculptural works merge to form a cave like enclosure from within the confines of the rectilinear shell. Providing intimacy and protection from the elevated & wind blown Docklands promenade the organic arches intend to shift the visitor inwards toward the end of the awkward ‘L ‘shaped plan & at the same time provide merchandising benches, walls and ceiling. The arches partially cover existing structural piers & terminate with mirrored cladding behind the sales counter seemingly extending the space and encouraging a play on perspective.

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Next March 25th, 2010, the new showroom Davide Groppi in Barcelona will open, in the heart of Born. This is an exhibition space designed by the creative and multidisciplinary hop! design studio. The area is signed by the Italian interior designer Paolo Tosi, who shared, from a long time, friendship and feeling with Davide Groppi and its projects.

This is the first exhibition and single brand sale space of Davide Groppi in Spain, is an innovative concept in many aspects: not only is a place for exhibition and sales, but above all a space for projecting where designers and creatives can offer and share their experiences, united by the taste and the search for minimal and essential light.

Within this space, are located, in fact, other activities related to the design world, from fashion to photography through architecture. 200 square meters where white and black alternate in a game of full and empty; frameless windows and white divisions at different heights, in contrast to the walls with the texture of marble and iron, mark the working areas of the other activities developed into the area.

The showroom is aimed at both designers, architects, professionals and the general public. A space oriented to understand light, performed in its many applications and nuances of purity and functionality.

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Buensalido+Architects have completed the interior of Via Venetto store in Makati City, Philippines.

“For the first store we designed for Via Venetto, a 30-year old shoe retail store, the brief was to give it a new contemporary image to recapture its market. The dilemna that was initially faced was that it has long established a great reputation in the retail scene, and so veering to far from its original look could alter the market’s perception of it for the worst. We therefore tried to find a balance between maintaining some of its characteristics and infusing them with newer, more contemporary forms.”

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Turkish design studio Autoban, have designed a retail store in the Nisantasi neighborhood of Istanbul, for the fashion brand V2K Designers.

Located in the centre of Istanbul’s classiest shopping district, a striking angular entrance welcomes visitors to browse designer pieces by top brands from all over the world. A large angular column reaches up and past a mezzanine floor, creating an impressive space at the entrance to the store, while a grid like wall of light bulbs down the side of the store provides a powerful banner for slogans which can be modified as desired.

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Architects Tristan Dieguez & Axel Fridman sought to to reproduce in the interior of the store feelings and sensations generated by urban space: the possibility of surprises, contrasts, unexpected encounters, and changes of perspective. The layout of the space means that movement is never horizontal or vertical but both at the same time. The specific functions of the store such as exhibition areas, fitting rooms, counters or deposit are as important as the space that separates them.

www.dieguezfridman.com.ar

The concept for the Neil Barrett flagship store in Tokyo is based on the minimal cut of the brand`s fashion design and parallels its approach in using the same design parameters of fixed points, folding, pleating and cut outs. Rather than defining a single room or space, the design creates a circular passage allowing the customer
to experience the space in multiple ways and interpretations.

The design of the store plays with the complementary characteristics and the related dualism between
male and female. this is echoed in the furniture design on both floors through the formal language and
tactile quality of the materials used. the furniture piece on the ground floor is designed as a strong,
masculine and dynamic form whilst the piece on the first floor enunciates femininity through more fluid
contour lines. the first floor is designed in a more playful manner creating different zones that maintain
the perspective view between them.

www.neilbarrett.com

Carolina Herrera, one of the most recognized latin designers, opened her first store in Bogota, Colombia inside exclusive El Retiro Shopping Mall. The space, which follow carefully the design standars of other Carolina Herrera stores around the world such as New York or Paris, is one of the most exclusive stores ever opened in Bogota, and is part of a growing group of international luxury brands which also entered Colombia´s market in recent years. Some of the brands with new stores in Colombia are: Hugo Boss, Zara, Custo Barcelona, Bulgari, Ermenegildo Zegna, Louis Vuitton, Keneth Cole, Swarovski, Mango, Paul & Shark and Loewe.

Photos: © Numa Studio

www.carolinaherrera.com

Designed by Herzog & Meuron, Prada’s Tokyo “epicenter”, in the fashionable Aoyama district, is the company’s second radical approach to fashion-store architecture, following Rem Koolhaas’ flagship store in New York. The intent is “to reshape both the concept and function of shopping, pleasure and communication, to encourage the meshing of consumption and culture.”

The Tokyo store is a strikingly unconventional 6-story glass crystal that is soft despite its sharp angles – as a result of its five-sided shape, the smooth curves throughout its interior, and its signature diamond-shaped glass panes, which vary between flat, concave and convex “bubbles”.

Prada: Aoyama Omotesando, Tokyo, Japón.